After checking in your name it's time to
pick your game mode. Down Hill, Half Pipe, Slope Style, CBX, Big Air Stadium
and new Special events are immediately available to play individually. There's
also the Trickmaster Mode which lets you score big hang time and a Tournament
mode combining all aspects of the game.

Cool Boarders 4 boasts 30 big
new courses riddled with steeper cliff drops, sneakier short cuts, rad kickers,
longer rails, sleeker curves and more hard-core buried obstacles to offer a
fitting challenge to your skills on the hills. Actually it's only 5 courses set
in Vermont, Colorado, France, Japan and Alaska, which isn't really that
impressive. Perhaps a track editor would have been a better idea?

There's also an option to customize your rider
by adjusting height, weight, outfit and clothing color, then work your deck by
designating color and pattern.

On-screen we have the return of the
small scale bar that rises when the jump button is held down. Should you fail
to release it when the summit of a hill precisely matches the rising line at
the top of the bar... then nothing will happen. Get the timing correct and your
boarder will launch up in the air where spins, grabs, flips and specials may be
performed.

Once again Cool Boarders 4 insists on retaining the option
that allows your boarders to fight! The front shoulder buttons are transformed
into left and right hooks, which completely destroys any credibility that the
sport of snowboarding may already have gained. Thankfully the fighting mode can
be switched off before commencing play.

There's a split screen mode
for between two and four players but even with all of these extra new features
Cool Boarders 4 is still just an average snowboarding game.

Game
Options:

This is a 1
disk game for 1 to 4 Players using a multi-tap. It is compatible with the
standard (digital) joypad and the analog stick controls of the dual shock
joypad. Games can be saved via memory card (1 block per save).